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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Massive Cross to Memorialize Stalins Victims


“A giant cross commemorating the victims of Stalin’s terror 70 years after the worst of the purges has reached Moscow after a journey from northern Russia. It was taken by boat from the Solovetsky Islands, site of a prison camp, and will be erected at a former execution ground outside the capital.” (BBC News, Tuesday)

The road to the socialist hell has been paved with utopian delusions.

FEE Timely Classic

Vorkuta to Perm: Russia’s Concentration-Camp Museums and My Father’s Story” (PDF) by Jon Basil Utley